Samsung Says $303 Million Memory Patent Verdict Should Be Erased

Samsung Electronics Co. attacked a $303 million patent verdict, arguing that a late switch in Netlist Inc.'s legal positions unfairly prejudiced it at an East Texas trial in April.

Samsung argued a series of equitable defenses at a bench trial Tuesday presided over by US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Judge J. Rodney Gilstrap. The South Korean tech giant alleged that Netlist went through almost all of discovery arguing that its four patents covering memory modules used in the computing industry are essential to a standard agreed to by industry participants.

But Netlist pivoted at ...